Primary school
Sources and method
This school
URN 137114 · LAESTAB 306/2013 · Source: Get Information about Schools, DfE, OGL v3.0 (record under Visit & links).
Against London and Croydon
Track: London's middle 80% (10th to 90th percentile); L = London median; C = Croydon median, shown when 10 or more of its schools have a figure; the dot is this school.
London state schools in Close Knit with a published figure, same phase (primary or secondary) and year; the borough median only when 10 or more of its schools have one. 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles with linear interpolation (PostgreSQL percentile_cont).
Colour only where lower or higher is clearly better (absence: lower): blue = better than the London median, red = in London's worst 10%.
Money: Compared only with academies' accounts (AAR), same academic year.
Results
England rank: Key stage 2: % of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths; ties broken by % at the higher standard. Ranked among 15,057 primaries in England, 2024/25. England's state-funded mainstream schools with a published figure that year (suppressed or missing figures are left out); equal figures share a rank; top % = rank ÷ schools × 100, rounded up.
Top % in England by year: the first and best years are labelled; the dashed line is the middle (top 50%).
Against London: London state primaries, same year, cohort 30+, suppressed figures left out. Steps: the score out of 10 against London (10 = top 10%).
Arrows: change in London percentile points since 2018/19.
Pupils counted: 85 pupils (2024/25), every measure.
KS2 progress (reading), KS2 progress (writing), KS2 progress (maths): Not published for 2023/24 or 2024/25.
Getting in
Got in = first-choice families offered a place on national offer day ÷ families who put the school first. Putting a school first gives no priority: siblings and distance decide.
First-choice applications not offered a place on national offer day: 100 × (1 − first-preference offers ÷ first preferences). Applications count preferences, not children; places can still be offered from waiting lists after offer day.
Source: DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers.
Last distance offered: the straight line from the school to the furthest child offered a place under the distance rule. Not a catchment: it changes every year.
Croydon Council, Reception, 2019/20–26. Croydon Council copyright; shown credited, with a link to the council's table. Measured: straight-line.
You: the straight line from the centre of Central Croydon (the area you came from) to the school, not from your door; inside or outside compares it with the latest distance offered.
Inspections
GoodRequires improvementInadequateGood or betterUngraded visit, no grade
Dates are the day each inspection started: Jun 2025 All areas Good · Mar 2020 Remains Good · May 2016 Ungraded visit · Dec 2012 Good · Nov 2010 Inadequate · Mar 2008 Satisfactory · Nov 2006 Inadequate. Each dot opens its Ofsted report. Report cards and 2024–25 inspections have no overall grade: the badge takes the lowest area's colour.
Inspection judgements graded Outstanding or Good, and Requires improvement or Inadequate, out of the judgements graded (the overall grade and aggregated judgements are not counted). Counted from Ofsted's grades, never scored from the report text.
Source: Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes.
Pupils
Full = pupils on roll ÷ the school's capacity (630 places), from Get Information about Schools.
Pupil profile and absence: DfE school census and pupil absence (Compare school and college performance). Free school meals = eligible at any time in the past 6 years; persistently absent = missed 10% or more of sessions. Withheld = suppressed by DfE.
Parent View
Survey period 3 Sep 2024 to 1 Sep 2025, as at 1 Sep 2025. Source: Ofsted Parent View management information, OGL v3.0 (dataset). The school's own survey page is under Visit & links.
Ofsted changed the survey on 10 Nov 2025. The card shows the newest survey with 10 or more responses; an earlier survey is labelled and never mixed with the current one.
Share of the parents who answered, from Ofsted's published percentages: agree = strongly agree + agree; yes/no and overall-view questions show the share answering Yes or Positive. Where a question does not apply to every parent (Not applicable, I have not raised any concerns), agree is the share of the parents it applies to: strongly agree + agree divided by 100% minus that answer; the card says how many it did not apply to. Don't know stays in. Ofsted publishes a school only with 10 or more submissions. The questions changed on 10 November 2025: the card shows the current survey when the school has one, else the earlier survey (one academic year of submissions, the latest with 10 or more), never both.
Workforce
School workforce census, 2025/26. Staff in FTE (full-time equivalent), rounded to 1 decimal on the card. As published: teachers 23.6, leadership 2, teaching assistants 13.33, support staff incl. TAs 27.4, whole workforce 51 (62 people), 24 teachers by headcount.
Other support = support staff incl. TAs minus teaching assistants.
Per adult counts teachers, TAs and other classroom support; excludes admin staff.
- DfE: FTE pupils (January census) ÷ FTE teachers (November census)
- DfE: FTE pupils ÷ FTE teachers, teaching assistants, other school support staff and technicians; administrative, auxiliary and business staff are not counted
- Teachers in leadership posts: head, deputy and assistant heads
Financials
Academy accounts (AAR) · September 2024 to August 2025.
Published total ÷ FTE pupils in the same return, to the nearest pound; income and spend per pupil are left out when the return covers less than 12 months.
CFR (maintained schools, April–March) and AAR (academies, September–August) are different accounts and years: do not compare a maintained school with an academy.
All sources and licences (8)
- Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers
- Department for Education, Compare school and college performance
- Croydon Council, school admissions: on-time offers
- Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes
- Department for Education, Academies Accounts Return
- Department for Education, School workforce in England, reporting year 2025
- Department for Education, Get Information about Schools
- Ofsted, Ofsted Parent View management information
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Results · 2024/25
Ranked 6,986 of 15,057 primaries in England · top 47%
Against LondonArrows: London rank change since 2018/19
Show KS2 results by year
No exams 2019/20–21Not published 2021/22
Getting in · 2026
By preference
| Choice | Applied | Offered |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 71 | 71 |
| 2nd | 55 | 10 |
| 3rd | 49 | 5 |
- 2025/261.6 km
- 2024/251.1 km
- 2021/222.2 km
- 2020/21995 m
- 2019/207.2 km
- You0.7 km
Inside last year's distance · approx.: from the centre of Central Croydon, not your door
Visit & links
Open days aren't open data: the school site lists them.
Official
Guides
Links open in a new tab. Close Knit counts the click, never what you do there.
Inspections · 2006–2025
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Early years provisionGood
- Leadership and managementGood
- SafeguardingEffective
- 2006Inadequateas predecessor
- 2008Satisfactoryas predecessor
- 2010Inadequateas predecessor
- 2012Good
- 2016Ungraded visit
- 2020Remains Good
- 2025All areas Good
1 point to improve
Read what Ofsted said (6)
From Ofsted report, inspected Jun 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy at this welcoming and inclusive school.”
- “Pupils feel safe and are confident that staff will support them to resolve any worries that they may have.”
- “Staff know the pupils well.”
To improve
- “In some subjects, teachers do not consistently deliver the curriculum effectively.”
- “As a result, some pupils do not develop the same depth of knowledge and understanding as they do in other subjects.”
- “The school should ensure that staff have the expertise they need to deliver the curriculum consistently well across subjects.”
Ofsted inspection report extracts, Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Pupils · 2024/25
Girls 49.4%Boys 50.6%
94.1% full · 630 places
Parent View
Earlier survey (before Nov 2025) · as at 1 Sep 2025 · 47 responses (7.8% of pupils)
Workforce · 2025/26
- Classroom teachers 21.6
- Leadership 2
- Teaching assistants 13.3
- Other support 14.1
Teachers 23.6 FTE · Whole workforce 51 · 62 people
Financials · 2024/25
- −£545,000revenue reserve
- +£83,000in-year balance
Grants £7,198 · self-generated £90 · premises £333 per pupil
Multi-academy trust: ARK SCHOOLS (39 academies) · trust reserve £6,526,000 · Reserves in a multi-academy trust belong to the trust; this academy's figures include the share of central costs the trust gives it